Bag, pocket, or pouch, and closure therefor



June 25, 1929. y R, c, CHILD 1.718.276

BAG, POCKET, OR POUCH, A ND CLOSURE THEREFOR Filed July 25, 1928 www?Patented lune 25, 192% TD STATES PATENT OFFIC'.

RGBERT C. CHILD, F BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 G. E. PRENTICEMANUFACTURING COMPANY, 0F NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPGRATION OFCONNECTICUT.

BAG, POCKET, 0R POUCH, AND CLOSURE THEREFOR.

Application led July 25,

This invention is in containers such as bags, pockets orpouches. Oneuseful embodiment of the invention comprises a portable pouch, whichmay, for example, beof dimensions adapting it to be carried in aclothing pocket, to serve to contain anything requiring to Abe 1enclosed; typically such supplies as smoking against spilling thecontents.

tobacco, or a pipe, or both tobacco and a pipe.

Objects of the invention are to provide an article of this nature havinga closure so that when open, the mouth .opening provides at least asmuch free space for access' to the interior as is providedv by theinterior dimensions of the pouch, the closure .being such as effectivelyto retain small or granular contents. Another object of the invention isto provide a durable and convenient tobacco pouchhaving a mouth openingof such Width and flexibility as to admit the bowl of a pipe, 20

and the hand of the user, if desired, and having a closure devicenevertheless capable of holding the opening closed and guarding Anotherobject of the invention is to provide a pouch closure of a type adaptedto be fastened by any of the kinds of slider-actuated interlockingmultiple-engaging-element types offastener in closed position, whichwhen open, will permit the engaging elements to be Widely separated.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings, Which illustrate a preferredform of the invention for purposes of explanation only, vand which arenot to be understood as showing the only embodiment of the invention,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a pouch in open condition;

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the pouch in closed condition; and

Fig. 3 is an elevation of a blankof material used to form a part of theclosure.

The pouch may be principally comprised of any bag of light, strong, andflexible material, for example, made up of two like blanks 1, 1, ofsuitable material, such as leather, imitation leather, cloth, anyflexible fabric such as rubber, rubberized or oiled silk, cotton orother textile fabric, or any fabric treated with coating materialsuitable to the uses of such a bag or pouch. The blanks 1, 1, may be ofany desired form, preferably having rounded contours at least at thecorners 2, 2, and these blanks may be overlaid one on the other andconjoined together except at certain margi- 1928. Serial No. 295,288.

nal edges for the opening in any desirable Way; for Vexample by a sewedseam 3. But the pouch may be made of an integral piece of fabric, ifdesired, turned up into a side seamed bag having an open mouth'and oneexpansible or open side, with the same ellect as 'the two-blank sealnedpouch shown.

In manufacturing the article the seam 8 is not complet-ed to form a sideseam at one of the side edges of the overlaid blanks 1, 1, but is leftopen from the point 4 or thereabouts of one ,side of the pocket or pouchto bc formed, for example, the side 5. The parts of the side edges at 5of the pouch are free to he separated from each other, so that thecorners 6, 6, of the blanks 1 may be separated so far as desired, toprovide, with the adjacent mouth edges, a Wide mouth triangular ingeneral shape, as best illustrated in Fig. 1, for free access to the'interior of the pouch. The corner 7 of the mouth of the finished articlemay be conjoined by stitches lof the seam 3 or parts of fastening means,such as a metal' staple orstop 8 for a slider 10 having thc usual Wedgeor plough element and directing channels of any of the well-known typesof slider-actuated mutually interlocking engaging elements of suchfastening devices.

The mouth edges of the pouch may be,

ferred the strips 12 are conjoined to the blanks' 1 by sewed seams 15,15, which extend from end to end of one edge of each of the blanks 1. Inmaking these articles, it will be understood that a continuous length ofthe stringers 12, before or after the attachment of elements 14 may besewed to a succession of blanks 1 as a continuous operation, the pouchesbeing cut apart by severing the strips 12 at the edges of the blanks 1before or after their assembly by making the seams 3.

The pouch is completed by providing an extensible and collapsible stop16 closing against spilling the contents, the open side seam adjacent tothe mouth edges provided with the series of fastener elements 14. Stop16 may be made as a bellows-folded piece, of the same material as or amore flexible material than the blanks 1, 1, the edges only of stop 16being securely attached to the side seam opening from 4 to 6 left in thepouch when the side seam 3 is sewed. As best shown in Fig. 3, apreferred form of the stop 16 comprises a generally triangular blank setor creased inwardly along the lines 18 to provide radial bellows fol'ls,and creased outwardly along the line 19vto provide an outward bellowsfold. The stop 16 may be attached along its edge a to one of the blanks1 by a seam 8l before sewing the seam 3, which may be con- 'tinued at 3in respect to the other edge of ther stop 16 and the other blank 1 only.Preferably the contour of the top edge of the blank 16 is relativelyconcave, as shown at 20, (Fig. 3) to avoid contact with the slider 10when the slider is operated to close the pouch. lVhen the pouch isclosed by slider 10 the corners 6 are held together with the, foldedstop 16 con'ipressed between them, and within the closed pouch.

It will be observed that any interior pressure of contents will merelyhold the top edge 2O of the folded stop 16 against the fastener edge;but when the slider is moved to open the pouch, the stop 16 forms across wall of a triangular mouth, between its edge' and the edgescarrying the fastener elements. A place for the insertion of the thumbor tinger of the user to grasp the corners 6 or the edges 5 near thecorners 6 and to open the pouch merely by separating the corners 6 isprovided by the `slight separation of the main blanks 1, 1, by thefolded or collapsed stop 16, and on such separation the slider 1()reacts to move to the open position shown in Fig. 2. f

To prevent the slider 1() from passing ofi' tbe engaging elements 14, anabutment stop 20' is applied to one (or a stop 20a to each) of the mouthedges of the pouch. The stop 20 does not connect these mouth edges, sothat the corners 6 are free to separate.

I claim:

1. Pouch having a mouth comprising edges free to separate at 'one onlyof t e corners of the mouth, an expansible and collapsible stopconjoined severally to adjacent edges of the pouch at said corner, andslider-actuated fasgageable elements into engagement and t0 hold saidstop in collapsed relation at one extreme of its motion.

i). Pouch having side and mouth edges of its material at an angle toeach other, the mouth edges being provided with engageable elements of aslider actuated fastener adapt- -ed in closed position to hold the endsof the side edges closely together, and having a eollapsible stopbridging and between said side edges and adapted to be held in collapsedrelation between said side edges when the slider is in closed position.

4. Pouch having a mouth comprising edges free tooseparate at one only ofthe corners of the mouth, an eXpansible and collapsible stop conjoinedseverally to adjacent edges ybf the pouch at said corner, andslider-actuated fastening means having engageable elements respectivelyon the separable edges, one of the edges at the separable corner of themouth being provided with an abutment stop preventing motion of theslider off the fastener means at that corner.

. 5. 'An article having a gap therein, means permanently uniting theedges of the gap at one end, extensible means connecting the oppositeedges of the gap at its other end, series of fastener elements at theopposite edges respectively of the gap, and a slider for moving thefastener elements of the opposed series into gap closing relationship.l

Signed by me at Boston, Massachusetts, this 20th day of July, 1928.

ROBERT C. CHILD

